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LAW pEPORT. COURT OF KING'S BENCH; Dec. '9. CRIM. CON. BOYD V. Wily-TB. '• This was an atlion brought for the recovery of darnacres for criminal conversation with the plain -6 Wife. .- • . . . • Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL,. SS Counsel torJte l. ; e I Cegretted that it was his auty' to present the Jury this day With another cash of a similaf• de crirtion to y that *of yesterday ; it was, however, orne consolation, that it was not. marked by the same circumstances of atrocity, although it was at attended .with the same loss at happiness to the ; 4 1 31 aint'ff. The plaititiif in this a6tiou was the son I' tf..the,Honourable Charles Boyd; who was lineally desCended tiom the Earl of Kilmarnock, whose 1 title and estates were forfeited, in the Rebeilion of 1745, and the means of the fainily were of course ,gre circumscribed.' This Mr. Charles Boyd had Married, and had a . (;,on by his first wile ; but his wife d , y i shortly after., he again united himself to the aughtei of Lord CovinKton, a Scotch . Judge. In Aoing abroad some time Idler, he left his son, the . P l- clintiff,, in the car of his step-mother,. who. had l tivenhim the best education her limited means would i allow; and on hiS growing up to. manhood, so tar consulted his inclinations as to. put her whole for- 1. t'pe'i►ito'liis hand. - ,, to embark in trade; by which beans it was completely sunk. Thus they were both I left destitute in the world. The Hon. Mrs. Boyd, how.. 1 ever, had good - friends e and through them got an an unity of 2001. a-Year, and a place in theCustorn-house for the plaintiff,and again they were raised to a satia tion of comparativetiflueuce. Id Some time after I . the plaintiff became acquainted with Mr. Hide i and his family, and beceiii'ing attached to the /laugh- ! ;ter . of thisGentlenian, an 4.;:ithecary at Lambeth, pro- t ;I ) ,csecfor and married her, fie being then 26 years of t t . and she about 20,- Such Was the anxiety :of the .flori. Mrs. Boyd fur the hapi i )ipess oti the young , ''nuple, that though immediately Efilicited toliye with she declined,' lest it sln be-disagreeable in Mrs. Boyd, promising at the same .thne, that if t after the first six months they rtineated-their rtquest, ; i she should readily constint. After the expiration 1 nf this period she was invited agars, and came tOflive. with them. They lived happily together till within the last six months; the - only fault on the part 'of the plaintiff, 'if he had any, being that he was toe Indulgent to his wife. The defendant, Mr. Whyte; Was a merchant. (His Connsel said he was only a .11)cl-chant's clerk.) Be it so. He 'had, however, full I. lans'of being a merchant whenever he should so. °dine, it • . appearing that he kept a servant and, • h orses, which, m , times like these, were net sup ,sijnrted on a 'trifling income. Were the ,case •So-or howeVer, if the defendant chose to assume the appearance he had 'done, and to corrupt the wife of a _aother, lie must Suffer for ii..--There dot, bow e"r, in this case any extra'ordinary aggravation, nor ny viotation of the rights of hospitality. The plaintiff bad observed a change in the manner and deportment of his wife,which gave reias m to Sus- Ped that all was not right. He accordingly procured leave of absence from the Custom House Board, in ovtiose employ he was, and pretended that he had oc- `Asion to goto the country for a few days; went to th"e o; a friend resolved to watch his wile's motions..'. vies on the 7th September. His wife ate( ed to 'Jo inwteolable at the plaintiff's absence; but on the lead follow ir day she was observed, by a person who . 1412 1 been set ter husband to watch her in March ..`9oM-street and e;01 , man-street, _being part of the 1 4 1 ,ew buildings behind Gray's-inn-lane, hanging on t he arm of the defendant, with whom the plaintiff Avi s ahogether unacquainted. The defendant lived In ilinau-street,and the plaintiff in Stdrnutiiii-street, ciulki see each other trout the windows ut either . oreccueekted signal, as it N,t ould seem, evening, at 7 o'clock, the %wife havine . ciowu,to her own door just it was et „ .. • Le opposite side of y leined eac... end ofthe .'irs. Boyd toot,. hold ut tItL. Ll street they called a haekuey into it were traced to a notc- ;r, :;l~l~i .. . . . . - ! ,:::. .;R: 1-,,...y, i - Ch indos z street,Covent-gor;. -"t-i. -- • 'f - illey di-,cll.oged the coach. One of V.ll - . ~;.rvauts, who hid W'ati:i)t cl their. muttons, . - _ 1,,1e s one coach, dr4e to the CiastouVhouse, F 1::,.; , i,,rtn.i 11.1 master, who stepped into the coach, ; L! , .. drove to ! . .he Kuy. On .askil,g tor his wife, Mrs. Dark , Ge mistress of the house, denied that Nile Bari )eeti there, : bur she was detecteil'iw,mdeaiour- I .lig to escape by the back way ; on which the plain- .1 If exclaimed " Tnat's myThe Lady , t' i lt.i—" Oh, Charles,. he - has not injured Mel"— 1 . 4 'tie defendant. escaped.. . -. , Tire marriage ' in : August, 1807, having been truved, Mr. A. Lockhart was called. He stated trim klt to to a relation of the late Lord Covington, and I s iie mtpriew of the Hon. Mrs. Bold. Of course he ~i a d' (Alen visited in the family, and observed that `qr. Boyd and his wife lived together very happily 1 - 1 d affectionately. . . . . . ~ Mr. Tupan Ryder, of the Custom-house, and Ma i°r.AloeS, of the TOwn Veteran Bat taliun,.depcoed t " 'Be same effect. ' They had . sometimes visited at Mr. Boyd's, and had met him and his wife at other plices, when they .always seemed to live happily to r'iier ; and Mr. Boyd had every ap?earance of a iii; and affettioSte husband. Mrs. Laylafid, adducedi)y the plaintiff to prove ‘‘!at he and his wife liVed happily together, said she skl not wish to say any thing against Mr. Boyd, but t knew Mrs. Boyd to be an unhappy young wo- Il t l an ; they had always however, appeared happy in ) Tillpany, with third - parties, and she knew tlistlgrs. , qd was unhappy, from what she had said herself, ' 4 (t that since Vebruarynr March last. She never saw 4 Nv t 'Y thing in t-he behaviour of ' Mr. Boyd' to give his 'le the least uneasiness ; but it is not common for Illarried people 10 disagree belote a third pa r ty.— 'Vartha Woodward remembered Mr. Boyd leaving 18 house on the 7th of Sept. last ; she was sent to Iltch M r s. B i . ;; d by his desire. Mr. Boyd lives in . 4 ittionth- s t r e et , G ra y' s -i n n -lane, a nd she under -8 ' i ' 4 4ts th at Mr. Whyte, the defendant, has lodgings an Millman-street, near the • Foundling Hospital, 4 keeps a groom, On the Bth of September the taw Mrs: Boyd walking with Whyte near Brunswich-4, . 1 1 ' 1 :Ire ; they went into theToundling Fields, where 4- q - parted. About 7 the same evening; she saw the 6 - ,,, f • 14 :' . 11 clant • come into ihe fields at the back of Sid 'Ml-place, in,;,o which Mr. Boyd's house looked. Lord Ef,LO,TBOROUGH stated this to be.a crime 1 which would admit of every. possible degree or shade of 'Morality, or rather immorality. The case now presented was one of the most lenient kind. It ap peared that the Plaintiff's wife, from whatever cir cumstance, was not a L'appy woman. If he pos sessed a wife of perverse habits, and vicious inclina tions, he could not be entitled to the same damages as if his wife had allowed him every cOmfort, and he had posSessed her entire affections. On the other hand, however, as the Defendant knew that Mrs. Boyd was a resident in that house where Mr. Boyd lived, though he might not have direct evidence that she was his wife, he saw her residing in' a re spectable abode ; and - , if he chose, with that evi dence before his eyes, to enter into amillicit.conoC tion with her, taking no pains to acquaint himSolf with her situation, he took ' the peril on himself, leaving for the Jury to weigh all these things, and . to say _what damages ought to be given.-- -The Jury, after deliberating--for a few minutes, found for ,the plaintiff-2001. damages. . . !qrs. Boyd almost immediately cameont and joined,. Whyte, laying hold 61 his arm-, on winch witruYss int- 1 .. .. . rnediately inforthe.d Mr.. Boyd of what she had seen. I . . . . , 4e- PORTSt:OUTW, DLCe 10.. - Tbii day arrived his Two constables, of: the name of Millet atidMatthews,, t • were also set to watch them, and folletvecit he parties . . . IV4jessy's . ship Partridge fforn Ply mouth. Mr. G. Millet knows the person of Mr. Whyte. . • -. I Sailatis Majesty's ship Sarpedon with a convoy .On the Bth of September, he followed Mrs. Boyd and'. of at , out twenty sail for the Downs, principally mer him up Grays Inn Lane into Guildford-street, where . - they took a coach, which -drove iM thtut /ships. mediately to the . . . .........,..... Key, in Chandes-street ; wit tress followed, and there .• the parties alighted, witness observing toe gentleman .' PLYMOUTH, DEC. B.—Arrived the London Packet; get out first, and then handing the lady (Jut, This of Aberdeen, Rrcitse., master, from Beneearlo, put was at a door under the gateway ; there is qlSo-a :in here for convoy, and in distress ;' also arrived, the back d6or to . the house. Witness waited abOut• till . Mr. Boyd came.with a peace Offict-r„ when they all , Thomas', BALL, from Londlsn. went into the . house. , Mr. Boyd demanded his i Dec, 9.—Arrived the . Cr'ocus., sloop of war, from - - wife, deScribing her person. The people of the house 1 Falmouth ; the Eciiii'e and Hardy, from a cruize ; denied. there was any such lady there, or that any ! 0 / • • the Contest; Lione l GacoottY., from' the Westward. coach came there that night. Mrs. Clarke, who I .1 keeps the house, said there was no such person His Majesty's,ship 'Gibraltar was paid Wages this there; they might stop if they . pleased, and were morning. welcome to-see any one collie out of the house. In • and the the mean tithe witness saw Mis 4 Clarke, the:l:laugh- The 4wethysi wtiS unlocked yesterday, ter, go up stairs, two or three rimes - ;' Some. one Pheasant, sloop Of war, decked. . , .. came down stairs; they. were attempting , to get her .Arrived the bonne Ciloyenne, outitiy the hack way, but the,door of the room being SheernesS ~. . sloop of war, from . • open, Mr. Boyd said, ." There is my wife," on, • . ..::: , . . • ..,,... which she cried, and said, " 0 Charles forgive rne, n. .. . . . for he ha 4 ot _injured me." .This was all that pa s - • . . . . . . FALMOUTH, DECDEC. ' B.—Arrived are Queer Ciza sed.--"Witness did not see Whyte in the house, but i 1. e , NS' w ith Mail from Ca- lotto pacaet, C ape. ~.,,unoE, be saw him a little way from the Key,,after the bustle was over, jiAt as Mr. Boyd Was getting into, a 1 dig , 4 In I ` )7 " la Y s ' P ass ' * g e ' , . , CdilCil. The 'lames tnigt4 be-an hour and a hidfitl the hoUse before Mr. B. got there. A. •••• 4 • NA VAL - ,N W . DoYER, Vr:C. the Austrian Messenger, came over yesterday from France, in a flag of truce, and was landed at a short distance,, (ions hence, and : bout o'clOL'k set 'tiff for Lon - don. _ . , Mr. PAR-E. then addressed the-Jury in etigatibn of damages. Some of them had bell upon the dial 'of 'yesterday ' but he begged them not to imagine that because he was to conduct the case of the pre sent Defendant, that therefore he was the advocate of ; in that place he must discharge.his duty to those that asked 'for his assistarice.—He rose novt7 with very ditiereift ieeling4 from those which had posSessed. him yesterday, wheh be addressed the Jury in a cause ot a similar nature to the present. He had seen his client,, and he had foUnd him a very cancP.d - , elegant, and he should add, but for the pre sent action - , modest young man. JHA, , scorned to deny the fact of his having been with the lady in question at the Key, in Chando'S.Street. The Learn : - ed Counsel was conscious therefore, that. a verdict must go against his client, but he hoped it woull he Such a verdict as Should , not prevent him' fi=otn be 'coming one day ea ornament to hiS'country. His 'ciieut was a yery young roan, and by no means in indqe'rolent circumstances. He was learning . the business of metchant in a retipectahle West India 'house, and hiS father, who is a Gentleman in Scot tif stnail prOperty, allovvs 2001. or 3001. a year. • The otily reason why he kept a horSe was, that he was a Member of the corPs of Lon don Light Horse. -He was instructed to 4preis the sorrow of biS Client for" she situation of Mr. Boyd ; but, at the same tlifie, the conduet of the de fendant had been just Such as that ot any other young man might have been 'in siniiiartcirturri stariceS, falling in with such a wtirhata as Mrs.- Boyd, in the streets of this great uretroooliS. His client did not pretend ,to know . how Mr: Boyd and his wife lived,. but Qne of the Plaulti:s own wit nesses had informed him th;:t 'Mrs. B. was In SMITHFIELD MARKET, DEc. ti. happy young woman. There 'was .no proor of fire -I • This day's Market was amply supplied with prime Defendant's being acquainted with Mr. B. till the . Beast ,, , or 3 and 'the show of Cattle in other respects was very day in question; Mid yet it appeared, that in the d ; eel, anon, or c, and , were Febtuary or March preceding, ords- duhapp% , ' r -I dear er ifiarr our last report; and the trade . in gene- She therefore looked abrOad for pleasureS. Was ral wars rather brisk.—The sales in the Hay Market there a tittle of proof that previous to this day the , • • 1 . A were scirnewoat lively ; Hay sold at last price ndant had known Mrs. B. and tlos being the Stra m and C,l6V , r fetched better erices.. We annex case, had nut the .L.ry reght . suppose, that . • an accurate stweinent of prices and numbers : this handsome young Man w4ing about the , . • - - Street, this dissatisfied wife fixes the !•ye of lust; I To sink the 001 per stone of Sib. • • • •._ 2O. ed. to is. Mhtt6n 4s.' 4d. to 6s. od. Veal ss. and that She, ci; course ; is the seducer ? How too 1 te f c:d. to 7 s. t)d. Pork cs. c.d. to 7s. ad. did. it appear that . he knew her to be a married Bessts2,sv: Sheep o, woman ? 'There was.nd evidehce Whatever of that ' • SAlfifirtELD. FIAYMAIIICET. , fact, Was he, then, the person who drew her 1 ad tl . ay_ . -L i to r 5 , . ,. 0d. to 61.t0 os. od. OS toye 71. 7S: . 11. I es. od. td 21. OS. • Out ? .No; the moment he sees him she runs down stairs, throws' herself, as' it .were, into his arms, and attizts him at the . door, just as he is cross ing tl , e field. He avealed to any man of 'feeling, if the Defendaht had not, in these circumstances, been seduced, rather than been the seducer'?. There was not ,sufficient ptoot .of the domestic felicity of ; the 'parties ? .Wily were not the servants df the "house called, in order, to. see _whether they lived happily behind the curtain ? Besides, it appeared that the Hon: Mrs - . Boyd always lived in the house; and he would put it, 'how was a young wife likely to feel when another always sat at the head of -the table? From what he had seen ; he - knew that no woman liked, or possibly could like, such a situa tion. Mrs. B. ,had something on her risibd that made her unhappy. She was unhappy so far back as March last. What was the consequence of this ? she looks forforeign pleasures abroad from her own hone. It might possibly happen that this woman fixed the eye of lust on his client, when seeing him exercising in ,the fields-near the Foundling Hospital. His client was not to' know that she Was a married woman. Was it not common for women, who, according to the - false language of fashion, were tin der protetilion, to give up that to Others which they pretended to reserve for one; and his client might think ^this woman• of that description. He hoped 'he had said enough for his client—he trusted he had not said _any thing to oflend his Lordship or the Jury. The brig - norough, of Pottstno - uth, came in to day, with the lois of an anchur and cable ; had . • • be.r) eaptured , by a Trench privateer, which after : wards reitnquished her. • SHEERNESS,- DEC. 9.—Came into harbour,. and pY(iceeded up to Black 'Stakes, his Majesty's ship l i thlitagenet., :• _ Arrived . Miijity's - sloop, Bermuda ; with the Cosa of her bowprit; Came dov:11 f.rpm the liver his Majesty's ship Agif=urt. 4 b • ,Saildd his Majesty'sship S,frenuous to Leith. DFC. 1 o,—Arrived the Redpale sloop of war; Cap4a.in IMAcDoNALn, with Le k?:1::1.T French privateer, of 16 guns, and 85 wen, which she.capL tared off Dunge.ne . ss early this morning, after a chace of thrce hours. The privateer was from llonlogne., aad had made no captures this cruize. Sailed his Maitstyi:s.ship, Lion, for Sheerness. • - Atrivvd the Desir6?; frdrri 'the Westward. The ootwardbound rt•waio. 81111‘ NE WS. bR AV/SEND, DE.CEN2BCR. 8. ArriVed—the .Nancy, Syrnson, from Quebec , ; Black Prince, Frazer, Betsey, Hirisly, Caledonia; Reed, and Sal ly, Green, from Oporto; Lively, Chele§, froth : Valentia ; Transfer,. Pullen, iforn Ginoltar ; Betsey, Rorie, frOm Sr. Oomingo;, Lively', Dixon; from Malaga: and tlie Minerva, Repley, from Malta. Sailed—the Commerce, Kalavtar, for Limerick. BIRTHS. to the 26th ult. atroalston, in EaSt Lothian, the Right lion. Lady Rphert.Kerr, of a Son. , On Saturday.morning, at his hotise in Lincoln's.inn•fields, the Lady of Mr. Serjeant Best, of a Son. * • Lately„ at Caldicott-hill, Herts, Mrs. C. Eades, of a still-born chill. At Woodcote-place, near Ppsom, Mrs. Bridges, ofa Sen. MARRI;D. - On Friday last. at Carshalton, in Surrey, by the It ev William Rose,' Zadik Levin, Esq. of Bedford,plae„' to Mary Ann, eldest d,ughte.: of the late Joseph Weatherall, On Saturday, at Layton, A. Doxat, Esq. of Bishopsgate Without,: to' Louisa; daughter of I. A. Doxat, Esq. of Phil -Iy Brook -House, Layton, Essex. DIED, On the zsth of 06}obcr, at Malta, his Excellency Rear- Sir 'Alexander john hall, Bart. K. S. F.. tut:. His Majesty's CominiSsioni.,r for administering the Civil Govern ment of that island and its Dependencies. On'Sunciay' the 3d inst. at his house, goss-shire, George Mackenzie; Esq. of A voch, and Great London. On Monday last, at' Brighton-place, Kent, Mrs. E. Ha milton, On Tuesday morning last, in the 73d year of his age, the Rev. Jonathan Davies, P. eighteen years Provost of Eton College, and formerly fieAl Master of litoh School. On ‘Vedri"eday last, in aussell-square, the infant daugh. ter of Nathaniel Winter, Esq. On Thursday afternoon, at the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry's house, in 'Hill-street, Berkeley• square,.‘the in tant : son of lames Cornwallis, L sq. • On Friday last, of an atrophy, Mrs.. Amelia Haworth, the wife of Brigadier-General Howarth, now on service in Spain. She was sister of Lord'Thurlow. The same day,..Mis. Kearsley., of Margaret-street, Caven dish-scriase, widow of the late Mr. George Kearsley , Fleet • Street. On the 29th ult. ageds about 50, at Tarring, near War. thing, Mrs. Somers, wife of Edmund SoniersoN.l. D. who is now in the army of Portugal, P.RICE O. SATUR Hank Stock,. Navy 5 per Cent. shut Irish 5 per Cent. 4 per Cent.. 84 3 per Cent. Red, 69 t .3.per :'cat. Con. shut • Bank L. Ann. 13 a 9-i6ths STOCK'S Y. . . . India Stock,.shut . India Bonds, 235. 2.45, pr. south Sea .Stock, Exclieq. Bills, Imperial 3 per Cent:, India for Opening, 102 Cons. for ditto, 2o h From the LOND('EGZZE7TP„ D,ct . • L Brtj, , . . At the Court at the Q.tieen's Pilace, the 6th of .Decernberf 1809, present the K! ;:vio lent Majesty in Council. His Majesty ha . ving.beeri 'pleased td appoint the MOsk Noble 4ichard.mar q uip : AVelleSley, K. B. to be one of his Majesty's Prircipal .Secretaries of State, he Was this d iv; Dy in; -ty'S con - la-land, sworn one of his iMaj;esty's Ptit cipal Secretaries, of State, accordingly. Downing-street, Dec. 8, 18 00 A Dispatch of which the following is a Copy, was this 'morning received ,at Lord Live:poor , ul:;ce‘i addressed toLord Viscount Castiere, b • Lietre nant-General Sir John Stua: - t, K. B. dated Slessit,4 20th 43#•:tober last. MY LORD,: • . A Dispatch; which I had the honoUr to addres's to your Lordship on the 2tfitit ult. .auprizoil -you of the representation; itiat had been rn?de to Vice-Ad= toiral.Lord Qoilingwo.od, and to tnysell, Of the solici= tude of the• inisabita.nts of Zante, Cephalonia, and other dependencies of file loniati.Govertirnent, to re= ceiye the assistance..Of„a British force to liberate them from French oppression. :The consequent equipment of an -n- der Brigadier .General Oswald, to cC-ope - fativtly with a squadron under Captain Spranger, of Fs Ma:- jesty'S ship, Warrior, was at, the same tiene detailed to your .Lotdship; and 'slated to have sailed the prosecution of this °hied 'on the 23d' of latt Month from ,Messina. The re N rts with which Captain Oswald of the 35th regiment, yesterday arrived from Zdnte, and which I have now the satisfa&ion of transmitting to your Lordship,' will mark the able..thanner in whicii ibis service has breu carried into etTed by the Of- ficers by whom it•was concluded ; and I hope his Majesty will graciously deign to approve the adop. •tion of a project, the success of which opens such means of opposing=future.obsticles to the probable views of the enemy, as well as disappointing theca tai the hoped utility of their preient 'usurpations in, that quarter. " . I have the honour to be, &c. J. STUART, Count of igaida, Lieutenant-General.' SIR; Bay of Zante, o.6tober 3, tSoge. . In consequence of your Excellency's commut i:. cation to Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Ball'at i Talu s we werefori unite enough to find tbe . S partan • frigatt off the Islands, having on :board Mr. Foresti, his Majesty's - Minister to 'the'.Septinsular Republic.--zA Considerations arising from the advance in the sea:. son, and the precarious state of•the weailit . , induced Captain Spranger to point out. Zarite as the primary . .otijed of attack'. ". 'Having from Mr: FOresti obtained the. most arty,,lit and . cnrreCt information reipeAing that:lsland, thz expedition•koot! to and.calle to an anchorin itg Roactt,ted tr.:attar: l .z the s ,o);)se•.6t the day of the' Ist of o,ciober, Captain Spranger. and my s4lf were ecitiil!,y desirous 'to avoid involvi;g_the inhabitants in the misfo - rtti[ws whicli is direct. attack upon the t,o:wri frlldsf !lave occasioned, . , it.w,as therefore determined that early on .the day follow..ing-the . troon , t should be landed at a con-. senien't Bay •three miles distant, proteeted by the - frigates and gnu 4oats. The first diVision of 14e. troops '(as tier rnargin*), under the initHediate ordete. of Lieut.-Colonel Lowe, effected a most, regular de barkation at the point proposed, and ih two colunin4 proceeded immediately towards a position turning the defence of the town, and cutting off its comma niCation with the Castles Lieutenant-Golonel Lowe led his 'column to the left; clearing an eminence upon Which the enemy . was said to be posted, and by this movement a .de tached battery was' turned; some prisoners evade,, and a more dire& intercourse with the shinning established. 'Vie corps ~ ; which 1 accoqli),,li,:(.l aids:el:ea by a valley 141 it ast:e.-,clcd the bight the Castle, v,.hich the light troops pushed forward to invest: °Ton Our approach the enemy had quitted the .town, retreating upon the naturally strong, but most unaccountably negleaed fortress, endeavouring to carry with him two six .inch howitzers, whictx the rapid advance of our Hankers forced him to aban• don. •• The accornpapying • ternast were 'then profferred, andatk.eesoine hesitation on the part of the French commandant, by agreed'to that evening. They win, I trust,ineet :with your Excellency's 'approba ,tion, and I beg kave.lfurther to, offer my congratu lations upon the enemy being, expelled from this beautiful and, fertile, Island, - with which, for .a long period, .there existed the most beneficial commercial rela!ions, and whose inhabitants so anxiously desire the advantages arising from British connexion and • prote&ion. • _ _ _ I have the honour to be, &c. • - J, OSWALD,"Brig. Gen. ~' Commanding Troops in thelonian Isles. To his Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir I„ Stuart, B, &. &c. . SIR, Cephalonia, Oa. 5, In my letter to your Excellency of the 30 . instant, I had the honour to report that the expedition was preparing immediately to proceed for Cephalonia, anal have now the pleashre to acquaint you with d's being atlnall y in our possesion. The disposition made by Captain Spranger of the formidable fdrce under his orders rendered vain the feeble efforts of the enemy to oppose our entrance into its capacious and secure harbour. Before the ships came to an, anchor, :a flag announced the sub mission of the,Town of Argostoli, and the retreat of the Garrison to the Castle of St. George, 'about six. miles distant from, thence. A diviSion of troops, under Lieutenant-Colonel Lowe, landed to preserve tranquility,.and an Officer procf!eded to summon the Castle, which capitulated upon the accompanying terms. Here;:as well as at Zane, the inhabitants univer •sallY, Hailed the British, as their welcome deliverers from that cruel yoke which French oppression every where impasr Until your Excellency's pleasure is made linown, I have nominated Lieutenant-Colonel Lowe to the important drily of commanding this bland ; certain Artillery, 2 tour-pounders, mounting gtin,s.-, Light Infantry, 35th R2glinent. .1". Companies itiVal Corsican Rangers (grenadiers,)-and 2 companies 35th. Regiment. 2 Companies 44th Regiment.—Amounting to - 6.)0 men. t The Terens were published in the Gazette of Tu;sday